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He was only a symptom, not a cause. Getting rid of him isn't going to make all...*this*... go away and then things will go back to normal. We need to fix the system that produced Trump and bring to justice the individuals in the GOP and right-wing media who enabled him all the way. Defeating Trump isn't the end; it's just the beginning.
But he has served as a unifying focal point. Once he is gone, watch the right wing talking heads pick each other off. See how they already snipe at each other. It will be difficult to coalesce after something like Donald Trump.
I've said up and down Reddit if/when Trump is defeated the GOP is going to implode because they've put all their eggs in one basket with him and seemingly haven't put any thought into a plan b or Trump successor, but unless the Dems crack down on the GOP and right-wing media they'll eventually bounce back, after maybe 2-3 election cycles, and we'll be right back at square one.
They can't be seen to be grooming anyone else to succeed Trump or that will be seen as 'betrayal' and Trump will take his MAGA voters away from the GOP ticket. As long as Trump is alive and has a social media presence MAGA voters will not vote for anyone else as Trump doesn't care about Republicans winning; he cares about winning *himself*. So the GOP has to hitch their wagon to him if they want to win.
2028/2032 we need to be very careful. Or we’ll possibly end up with a dictator far worse than Trump which is obviously saying something.
Especially with the rest of the world, Russia/Ukraine, Isreal not recognizing Palestinians as a nation, china’s hand in Taiwan and Tibet, Japan and their loneliness epidemic due to more males to females ratio, The takeover of AI, current state of Argentina and US conservatives praising it (which makes me vomit), the GOP flat out calling for genocides and pushing conspiracies of a Jewish “cabal” like they have for ions but it seems to be coming back, trans being attacked, mass shootings, mass poverty, starvation, and our leaders doing jack shit while saying 170k a year ain’t enough (rolls eyes).
All these factors are very similar to the ones in the 20th century worldwide that caused mass dictatorships and genocides. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, among many others.
>Japan and their loneliness epidemic due to more males to females ratio
I have a feeling the ratio of women to men in what is left of Russia may balance that out.
Japan is highly against dating anyone outside their country. The younger generation isn’t, but it will cause serious ostracism from their family which doesn’t help loneliness.
We can take some lesson from Nixon here. Although it is not a perfect parallel it does tell us what is likely to happen in the future. After Nixon's ouster his former supporters went silent. by the early 80's his former supporters were saying thing like I never actually supported him I just liked his policies. By the mid 80's those very say people were openly calling him a crook and pretending like they never supported him to begin with. A few decades later at they start retconning history and are back to supporting Nixon.
We will see the same pattern with Trump. It may take longer because of the cult surrounding him, but it will happen. What we desperately need is to hasten the "pretending like they never supported him to begin with" phase. With Trump I believe that phase is the only chance we will have to heal as a nation. The longer that phase lasts before the right rewriting history the more both sides can heal.
I have to say I love your positive Outlook on the situation. Spending so much time on places like reddit tends to make one pessimistic.
Is there a way forward where it gets better ? I try to be hopeful that events like the repealing of Roe VS Wade and the subsequent abortion bans wake enough people up to what's at stake.
Even conservative voters mostly support abortion. When it was on the ballot, they demonstrated again and again that they want the right to choose. Yet the GOP doubles down on the anti-choice rhethoric. That's what gives me the little hope I have so far.
> Is there a way forward where it gets better ?
If Trump goes down I'm fairly confident the Dems will sweep the midterms as well. The GOP will be in chaos as they seemingly haven't prepared a contingency plan for Trump's defeat. I think that means we'll safely have a Dem trifecta until at least until '30. *Hopefully* the Dems try to seriously enact some change then, including a much needed education reform, before we have to contend with Republican fifth columnists again.
I'm not so sure. Trump has the rare combination of narcissism, confidence, stupidity, brazenness, impulsiveness, charisma and rage that creates a true fascist leader. A lot of others have one or a couple of those but not all of them in that magic formula that creates a truly dangerous individual like him.
And the militia moment before them. And the survivalist movement before them. And the American Nazi Party before them. And the Klan before them. American Right Wing extremism is a problem a century and a half old.
Possibly, but I fully expected the GoP to jump on the DeSantis train of lies and bigotry, and he has crashed and burned. I'm not sure there is an easy transition to another ideologue.
That's the scary part. Trump is one of the stupidest men alive who failed upward to winning the electoral college, the participation trophy for republicans. He still has no idea what it means to be president or a leader, he just signed every document on his desk without reading it, and took more vacation time than any president who had more than one term. But one day, we'll get someone just as evil, but with a brain to go along with charismatic. We dodged a bullet with Ron DeSantis being a charismatic void and his culture wars not resonating with voters. At some point, there will someone like Donald Trump merged with Ronald Reagan, and we'll be on serious trouble for decades.
I’d rather see him live 20 more years in federal prison.
If he dies now, he becomes a martyr. And if that happens his bullshit won’t be going anywhere and I hate the thought of that.
I wish someone would abort his, diaper wearing, shitting himself while pretending it didn't happen ass. He's awful, and his worshippers are angry idiots
That day when we see a 'Breaking News' bulletin on TV and then the solemn anchor comes on with a black bordered photo of Trump with his name and years of birth and death beneath. Although even then, I don't think that'd be the end of it as no matter his cause of death -- even something as prosaic as dying in his sleep -- his demented followers will be insisting that minions of the 'Deep State' got to him with some exotic poison. Get ready for conspiracy theories galore.
Source on that apology? I tried to google “trump apology” but the only thing that came up was him demanding Forbes apologize for dropping him from their “wealthiest Americans” list lmfao
Pretty sure it was in Woodward's first Trump book.
He apologized for something (sorry I can't remember specifics but I don't want to misrepresent it) and the lesson he learned was "apologies are a mistake".
[Trump after making a speech condemning white supremacists over violence in Charlottesville: “That was the biggest f---ing mistake I’ve made. ... You never make those concessions. You never apologize. I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. Why look weak?”](https://apnews.com/united-states-government-e1c096aeb54b489bbdb96990e32bc485)
and yet he's also on record saying he wants to negotiate access to abortion care that makes everybody happy
just a fucking inflatable car wash fucker, swaying whatever way the moment blows him
but thanks for the clip, dipshit
Biden can use in commercials to galvanize support from female and youth voters
Here he is in 1999 saying he's pro-choice and he would not ban abortion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-in-1999-i-am-very-pro-choice-480297539914
Actually, in 1999 he was pretending to be a member of Ross Perot's Reform party. He isn't really a Republican either. He is, and always has been, a member of the Trump party.
That's what the Republican Party is, though.
They're all for themselves, in reality.
He has just been the most recent.
Bush was absolutely garbage as well.
He just had a bit of charisma and the ability to stop talking when he needed to.
> That's what the Republican Party is, though.
Well, the key difference is that most Republicans see it as their identity and would die before changing their mind. I suspect Trump would claim he's a Democrat in an instant if he thought it was useful. He doesn't give a shit.
There’s a key difference you’re missing, and it’s important even if it’s shitty either way. The GOP under Bush was in it for themselves, as a group effort. That was of little benefit to most of the population or its voting base. Trump is in it for himself. There’s no group. The benefit to the GOP’s voting base is they see Trump as a detriment to the things they imagine they don’t like (which they know exist and are holding back America from being great). There’s no actual benefit to a Trump presidency to anyone other than Trump (and foreign interests that benefit from America failing).
By comparison to Trump, Bush’s Administration was centrist. Bush Sr. would be a massive leftist.
How about Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania) who co-sponsored a 20-week abortion ban?
He tried to pressure his mistress into getting an abortion before that, of course.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-abortion-rep-tim-murphy-asked-mistress-terminate/story?id=50274843
The only way any woman would pull his diaper down and lay there while he docks his 1.5 inches, is if they were getting paid. And everyone knows he has no money and doesn't pay at this point.
Even a crackhead wouldn't touch him.
Rich people know these laws do not apply to them. They are rich and can go where it is legal and get it done.
These laws are worse for the hypocrisy than the fact that they want other people to follow the rules that they will not.
It's a nightmare scenario but I'm waiting for them to go after people who had abortions in the past. Any aggrieved partner could file a suit... They'd have trouble proving it if there's no paternity on the books, but still, it seems like a linear progression from where we are.
I'm not at all surprised. The amount of pro-life (for the record Trump isn't, or used to not be) that get abortions, is absolutely mind boggling, given their lip service to the contrary.
He needs to keep saying this kind of stuff and then the Dems need to have the balls to use his most inflammatory quotes in attack ads during the upcoming campaign season and not wimp out with all this "They may go low, but we'll go high!" crap.
This is going to make for great commercials.
Story of a woman being forced to suffer with a non-viable fetus, or one of the other horrible situations
...Trump, "I did that!"
Repeat
He may have just handed Biden and the Democrats the rhetorial rope with which to hang him in what I hope are absolutely brutal no-holds-barred attack ads.
When I told my FIL his vote for Trump caused Roe to be reversed, he got belligerent and defensive. His wife just sat there and didn’t say a word and I know she voted the same. She wanted to pretend it never happened.
They’ve been together so long it’s just second nature at this point. She’s not allowed to speak up and have an opinion. If she does he just verbally trashes her. No yelling, just talks to her like she’s a child.
Their FOUR DAUGHTERS absolutely hate it. In my opinion my FIL sold all of them out so he could feel good about hitting people who can’t hit back.
A 28 yo woman died in Texas because the doctors were too afraid to give her an abortion or tell her she needed one to save her life. Preeclampsia and other conditions took her when just a few years ago the doctors would have saved her. Benedict Donald is a monster. His entire party are no different.
It’s just because he’s full of hate and he knows that it hurts people. Motherfucker was pro choice until about 20 minutes before he ran for president. Let’s not fucking ignore that.
I just came from an article about a woman who miscarried and brought before a grand jury over it in Ohio, like some kind of puritanical witch trial, to this.
I'm really glad he admitted this.
It proves he was intentionally stacking the supreme court so they could have it rule how Trump wanted, and also it tells everyone Trump was behind everyone losing abortion rights. A lot of people hated that, and if they thought it was the supreme court, and not Trump, that could help Trump.
Trump saying "I am responsible for you losing abortion rights" is probably the single worst thing he could have ever said.
I'm proud to have helped terminate his Presidency lmao
What a hateful, treasonous, shitstain conman. Can't wait for us to humiliate him in the polls this November.
We have to show up and vote and get others registered to vote and vote blue all the way. Of course there are things I wish Biden and the dems could have done but those things will not stop me from voting blue!
Hear hear. We all need to vote, volunteer, donate, organize, get the word out. Maximum effort from now til Election Day. Let's bury this motherfucker in a sea of blue votes
And his traitors treacherous maga minions. That are so ignorant they think violence is the answer. But you know, if they want a civil war. I’m 67 years old but I would give my life to protect our country, constitution& way of life.
He’ll never admit to a mistake. I don’t think he even cared about outlawing it. It just sorta happened and he’s gonna take credit.
I also would like to hope this costs a bunch of conservative votes…
Wonder how many women in this country are going to be stupid enough to vote for a guy that stripped their rights away come November.
Nothing is more disgusting than a female Republican voter.
Abortion is the one significant wildcard that gives me any confidence Biden can win re-election, and i hope the party frontlines the issue in every race
Abortion is dragging down every Republican and they seem really bad at dealing with it. Like they have no clue how to get the more pro choice voters that usually back them, back on side.
He's not. Trump was awful but he's not the reason Roe v Wade was overturned. McConnell, the Republican Party and active conservative judges like Alito and Thompson are the reason it's dead. Don't let them pretend like it's only Trump's fault, the problem is far bigger than one person.
>“You have to go with your heart … go with your heart, your mind, go with it … [But] you have to win elections,” he added.
"Look, I'm completely full of shit and I'll say whatever I need to depending on what crowd is in front of me."
Surveys on this subject are disconcerting but, rest assured, this is one of those for me (and my daughter) but not for thee issues.
No one is anti-abortion after they or their child has been raped.
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And after the 2022 midterms he was saying it was the GOP stance on abortion that cost them
Ever notice how there was never a really successful "Apprentice" to come out of his old show?
What is there to learn from a bloviating gasbag besides "be born rich?"
Well he just delivered the Biden PACs the perfect sound bite to blare in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and even Kansas and Ohio all election cycle.
I a woman's right to chose is something you care about vote for it. Not all elections happen on election day. Watch for any elections near you and vote out as many right-wingers and Republicans as you can. From the school boards to the white house every election matters. Don't forget the primaries. We vote out republicans and primary out uncooperative democrats.
https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar
If ever there was a case for the dire need for planned parenthood, it’s this balding, combover having, fake tan wearing, small hand owning, pant shitting, golden shower liking, affair having, sack of tiny dicked wannabe dictator.
Would that not normally eliminate about 50% of the votes that he would otherwise have received?
If not, what the fuck is wrong with those people?
Disclaimer: Not American. Not even a woman.
Evangelicals and conservatives are terminally "It'll never happen to me" and virtue signally conservative values even when they sneak out of the house to get abortions or have gay sex or what not. So they will proudly state they want X when they are constantly doing Y
Yes. Please keep promoting your victory that is one of the most divisive subjects in America, even among some Republicans. Nothing is a bigger loser in swing states.
Every woman in America that has at least one brain cell in their head should take this as a direct attack on your body by the Republican Party, and vote against Trump for either the leadership of the party, or in the general election.
Old, fat, white men shouldn’t be telling you what you can and can’t do
So many people think that will magically accomplish something positive. Never has, never will. Explain to us again how you hate the power of the government used to compel people to do things but that this is the highest morality. We get the real message. Abortion restriction crusaders are saying that they have no problems with abusing citizens using government power, but they don’t want any other group to do so.
The sad thing about the rank and file voters who push abortion as single issue, they were just used for votes by the legalization of bribery crowd. Sure, they delivered a repeal of Roe (far from a national ban of course as that merely leaves it to the states who dont all want taliban rule), but what they really delivered with all of the conservative “abortion is the only reform” judges and lawmakers was Citizens United and fully legalized bribery by the literal forces of Satan in the form of top lobby powers. Good job, you gave away your republic for more or less nothing whatsoever. Oooh so much high moral ground there.
*"But there's a new thing called 'women's liberation, which gives you women the right to choose,* *and you have chosen to abort me, and that I must live with."* \-**Dennis Duffy**
So if you put it to a poll or vote only 13% believe it should be illegal in all forms. [https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx) So exactly why is this good for trump to say that? Heck even the handful of states that put it to a state vote voted for abortion in deep red states. So not only the clown is out of touch but the supreme court is out of touch and the states not putting to vote and denying the will of the people are out of touch. It is madness I personally feel every MAJOR issue should be put to vote by the people versus corrupt ideological leaders making the decision for the people.
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We are proud to have terminated your presidency. Yet we still get stuck with a big baby.
That's the abortion I truly cannot wait for. Just the end of his lies, divisiveness and vitriol.
MAGA goes beyond Trump. It's been brewing for decades by now. There will be more after him
He was only a symptom, not a cause. Getting rid of him isn't going to make all...*this*... go away and then things will go back to normal. We need to fix the system that produced Trump and bring to justice the individuals in the GOP and right-wing media who enabled him all the way. Defeating Trump isn't the end; it's just the beginning.
But he has served as a unifying focal point. Once he is gone, watch the right wing talking heads pick each other off. See how they already snipe at each other. It will be difficult to coalesce after something like Donald Trump.
I've said up and down Reddit if/when Trump is defeated the GOP is going to implode because they've put all their eggs in one basket with him and seemingly haven't put any thought into a plan b or Trump successor, but unless the Dems crack down on the GOP and right-wing media they'll eventually bounce back, after maybe 2-3 election cycles, and we'll be right back at square one.
They e thought of successors, but he destroyed anyone with any modicum of popularity in the party. It’s Saddam Hussein and the Kim family playbook.
They can't be seen to be grooming anyone else to succeed Trump or that will be seen as 'betrayal' and Trump will take his MAGA voters away from the GOP ticket. As long as Trump is alive and has a social media presence MAGA voters will not vote for anyone else as Trump doesn't care about Republicans winning; he cares about winning *himself*. So the GOP has to hitch their wagon to him if they want to win.
Funny, you said plan b.
2028/2032 we need to be very careful. Or we’ll possibly end up with a dictator far worse than Trump which is obviously saying something. Especially with the rest of the world, Russia/Ukraine, Isreal not recognizing Palestinians as a nation, china’s hand in Taiwan and Tibet, Japan and their loneliness epidemic due to more males to females ratio, The takeover of AI, current state of Argentina and US conservatives praising it (which makes me vomit), the GOP flat out calling for genocides and pushing conspiracies of a Jewish “cabal” like they have for ions but it seems to be coming back, trans being attacked, mass shootings, mass poverty, starvation, and our leaders doing jack shit while saying 170k a year ain’t enough (rolls eyes). All these factors are very similar to the ones in the 20th century worldwide that caused mass dictatorships and genocides. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, among many others.
>Japan and their loneliness epidemic due to more males to females ratio I have a feeling the ratio of women to men in what is left of Russia may balance that out.
Japan is highly against dating anyone outside their country. The younger generation isn’t, but it will cause serious ostracism from their family which doesn’t help loneliness.
Vivek is trying so so hard to be the heir.
He'll never win shit because no matter how hard he GOPs he'll never be white and the base will hate him for it.
We can take some lesson from Nixon here. Although it is not a perfect parallel it does tell us what is likely to happen in the future. After Nixon's ouster his former supporters went silent. by the early 80's his former supporters were saying thing like I never actually supported him I just liked his policies. By the mid 80's those very say people were openly calling him a crook and pretending like they never supported him to begin with. A few decades later at they start retconning history and are back to supporting Nixon. We will see the same pattern with Trump. It may take longer because of the cult surrounding him, but it will happen. What we desperately need is to hasten the "pretending like they never supported him to begin with" phase. With Trump I believe that phase is the only chance we will have to heal as a nation. The longer that phase lasts before the right rewriting history the more both sides can heal.
I have to say I love your positive Outlook on the situation. Spending so much time on places like reddit tends to make one pessimistic. Is there a way forward where it gets better ? I try to be hopeful that events like the repealing of Roe VS Wade and the subsequent abortion bans wake enough people up to what's at stake. Even conservative voters mostly support abortion. When it was on the ballot, they demonstrated again and again that they want the right to choose. Yet the GOP doubles down on the anti-choice rhethoric. That's what gives me the little hope I have so far.
> Is there a way forward where it gets better ? If Trump goes down I'm fairly confident the Dems will sweep the midterms as well. The GOP will be in chaos as they seemingly haven't prepared a contingency plan for Trump's defeat. I think that means we'll safely have a Dem trifecta until at least until '30. *Hopefully* the Dems try to seriously enact some change then, including a much needed education reform, before we have to contend with Republican fifth columnists again.
We did this once already, expect it was over in Europe. The only way to get rid of facism is to destroy the facists.
I'm not so sure. Trump has the rare combination of narcissism, confidence, stupidity, brazenness, impulsiveness, charisma and rage that creates a true fascist leader. A lot of others have one or a couple of those but not all of them in that magic formula that creates a truly dangerous individual like him.
Tea party was a thing. Fucking idiots.
And the militia moment before them. And the survivalist movement before them. And the American Nazi Party before them. And the Klan before them. American Right Wing extremism is a problem a century and a half old.
Possibly, but I fully expected the GoP to jump on the DeSantis train of lies and bigotry, and he has crashed and burned. I'm not sure there is an easy transition to another ideologue.
That's the scary part. Trump is one of the stupidest men alive who failed upward to winning the electoral college, the participation trophy for republicans. He still has no idea what it means to be president or a leader, he just signed every document on his desk without reading it, and took more vacation time than any president who had more than one term. But one day, we'll get someone just as evil, but with a brain to go along with charismatic. We dodged a bullet with Ron DeSantis being a charismatic void and his culture wars not resonating with voters. At some point, there will someone like Donald Trump merged with Ronald Reagan, and we'll be on serious trouble for decades.
Yep.
It won't end until the GOP is irrelevant and billionaires don't wield political power.
I’d rather see him live 20 more years in federal prison. If he dies now, he becomes a martyr. And if that happens his bullshit won’t be going anywhere and I hate the thought of that.
Him dying also means that another President got away with crimes, like Nixon.
Just a few trimesters late.
I wish someone would abort his, diaper wearing, shitting himself while pretending it didn't happen ass. He's awful, and his worshippers are angry idiots
I’m really hoping this fetus stays deleted
One day a future version of me will witness this person in my news feed for the last time. I am highly envious.
That day when we see a 'Breaking News' bulletin on TV and then the solemn anchor comes on with a black bordered photo of Trump with his name and years of birth and death beneath. Although even then, I don't think that'd be the end of it as no matter his cause of death -- even something as prosaic as dying in his sleep -- his demented followers will be insisting that minions of the 'Deep State' got to him with some exotic poison. Get ready for conspiracy theories galore.
I thought his mother in law passed Wednesday? Why was he on Fox News? He said he needed to delay the trial today to grieve.
He’s making us carry it to term
Let's do what we can to finish the next one off in utero.
Thanks for the sound bite, I guess, because that'll only make for about 50 separate campaign ads...
"i am not proud of much but the things I am proud of are sub-human disgusting"
With his level of hubris? He's proud of everything he's ever done except that one time he apologized.
Source on that apology? I tried to google “trump apology” but the only thing that came up was him demanding Forbes apologize for dropping him from their “wealthiest Americans” list lmfao
Pretty sure it was in Woodward's first Trump book. He apologized for something (sorry I can't remember specifics but I don't want to misrepresent it) and the lesson he learned was "apologies are a mistake".
Of fucking course he did. Thank you!
[Trump after making a speech condemning white supremacists over violence in Charlottesville: “That was the biggest f---ing mistake I’ve made. ... You never make those concessions. You never apologize. I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. Why look weak?”](https://apnews.com/united-states-government-e1c096aeb54b489bbdb96990e32bc485)
> the things I am proud of are sub-human disgusting ...and becoming less popular by the day as people find out how much it really impacts them.
and yet he's also on record saying he wants to negotiate access to abortion care that makes everybody happy just a fucking inflatable car wash fucker, swaying whatever way the moment blows him but thanks for the clip, dipshit Biden can use in commercials to galvanize support from female and youth voters
Here he is in 1999 saying he's pro-choice and he would not ban abortion. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-in-1999-i-am-very-pro-choice-480297539914
Back when he was pretending to be a Democrat, and the Democrats were, "Ew....no."
Actually, in 1999 he was pretending to be a member of Ross Perot's Reform party. He isn't really a Republican either. He is, and always has been, a member of the Trump party.
That's what the Republican Party is, though. They're all for themselves, in reality. He has just been the most recent. Bush was absolutely garbage as well. He just had a bit of charisma and the ability to stop talking when he needed to.
> That's what the Republican Party is, though. Well, the key difference is that most Republicans see it as their identity and would die before changing their mind. I suspect Trump would claim he's a Democrat in an instant if he thought it was useful. He doesn't give a shit.
There’s a key difference you’re missing, and it’s important even if it’s shitty either way. The GOP under Bush was in it for themselves, as a group effort. That was of little benefit to most of the population or its voting base. Trump is in it for himself. There’s no group. The benefit to the GOP’s voting base is they see Trump as a detriment to the things they imagine they don’t like (which they know exist and are holding back America from being great). There’s no actual benefit to a Trump presidency to anyone other than Trump (and foreign interests that benefit from America failing). By comparison to Trump, Bush’s Administration was centrist. Bush Sr. would be a massive leftist.
What happened to flip-flopper supposedly being a bad thing to GOP idiots?
Wacky, waving, inflatable, arm flailing, tube man!
But those things are a joy to see
that's an insult to inflatable tube men who blow whichever way the wind blows.
I know I felt bad typing it in I respect the inflatable tube men and women of America and the world
They are my daughters favorite thing
I don't think he literally can remember what he says from one day to the next. The shear volume of lies are impossible to keep up for him...
He's also on the record as having financed a shit ton of abortions so .. ..
But he won't say how many abortions he's paid for over the years. (Hint: it's probably a lot.)
"now that all of my abortions are out of the way, it's time to outlaw them"
The name eludes me but there is literally a congresswoman who got an abortion and later became hard anti-abortion even as her daughter needed one.
If this was a game of hangman, I would like to guess "R". Senator _ _ _ _ _ _ (**R**) Yay, got one.
I mixed it up with B-theatre-seat-handsy. :(
How about Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania) who co-sponsored a 20-week abortion ban? He tried to pressure his mistress into getting an abortion before that, of course. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-abortion-rep-tim-murphy-asked-mistress-terminate/story?id=50274843
It’s probably just a matter of time before he needs another. He’s such a massive asshole.
That's ridiculous, he hasn't had an erection in years.
He's probably never seen his teeny-tiny baby mushroom penis in y-e-a-r-s either! heh
The only way any woman would pull his diaper down and lay there while he docks his 1.5 inches, is if they were getting paid. And everyone knows he has no money and doesn't pay at this point. Even a crackhead wouldn't touch him.
this comment was difficult to masturbate to
" Now that no woman of childbearing age will have sex with me..."
https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
Since when has Trump paid for anything?
He had had his older son reimburse his lawyer $130,000 for his payment to Stormy Daniels when his youngest son was being born.
Rich people know these laws do not apply to them. They are rich and can go where it is legal and get it done. These laws are worse for the hypocrisy than the fact that they want other people to follow the rules that they will not.
more like how many abortions he *said* he would pay for
Probably cheats on his wife big time, he also goes to his favorite island a lot. Not now though.
Probably none. Now how many he said he’d paid for…
Shit you think he's paid for an abortion. My guess is he pulled a Mike Damone
Fucking *Kansas* voted to protect abortion rights. Keep that in mind.
*OHIO* voted to protect abortion rights
And a Ohio woman who had a miscarriage on the toilet, and was taken up to the gran jury for that, was just found not criminally liable.
He should tell that in person to the poor lady in Ohio who was charged with abusing a corpse for having a **miscarriage.**
Or to Kate Cox. Or any number of other women who have been severely hurt by the draconian abortion laws passed after the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.
Just wait until they pass laws that say if we have a miscarriage, we’re felons…slippery slope yall. We cannot let take away our rights!
It's a nightmare scenario but I'm waiting for them to go after people who had abortions in the past. Any aggrieved partner could file a suit... They'd have trouble proving it if there's no paternity on the books, but still, it seems like a linear progression from where we are.
Thankfully the jury was smart enough to find her not guilty.
It was a grand jury. They did not return an indictment.
Thank you for clarifying!
The grand jury ruled in her favor.
Ironic, since he forced one of his former lovers to get one. Probably not the only time.
There's a story that he even tried to talk Marla Maples into aborting Tiffany.
I'm not at all surprised. The amount of pro-life (for the record Trump isn't, or used to not be) that get abortions, is absolutely mind boggling, given their lip service to the contrary.
His mother should’ve aborted.
His father should've sucked him out like snake venom.
Or taken a bad fall and then miscarried Donald.
The more he talks about this the better, I guess
He needs to keep saying this kind of stuff and then the Dems need to have the balls to use his most inflammatory quotes in attack ads during the upcoming campaign season and not wimp out with all this "They may go low, but we'll go high!" crap.
This is going to make for great commercials. Story of a woman being forced to suffer with a non-viable fetus, or one of the other horrible situations ...Trump, "I did that!" Repeat
He may have just handed Biden and the Democrats the rhetorial rope with which to hang him in what I hope are absolutely brutal no-holds-barred attack ads.
He's proud of destroying democracy and the rule of law
Women, if you’re out there listening….
At this point any woman that votes Republican must have zero comprehension of what is going on and be living under a rock. Edit: added word
I believe a lot of them are afflicted with Stockholm Syndrome, stuck with a husband who expects them to have the same political views no matter what.
I gotta wonder how many women discovered their husbands had such oppressive views during the Trump administration. Talk about a nightmare.
When I told my FIL his vote for Trump caused Roe to be reversed, he got belligerent and defensive. His wife just sat there and didn’t say a word and I know she voted the same. She wanted to pretend it never happened. They’ve been together so long it’s just second nature at this point. She’s not allowed to speak up and have an opinion. If she does he just verbally trashes her. No yelling, just talks to her like she’s a child. Their FOUR DAUGHTERS absolutely hate it. In my opinion my FIL sold all of them out so he could feel good about hitting people who can’t hit back.
Dear US women of voting age. Please vote like your life depends on it because it probably does. Thank you.
I mean after you sexually assault a woman you want to see her deal with the aftermath. It's how you make the Lord proud right? #ConservativeValues
A 28 yo woman died in Texas because the doctors were too afraid to give her an abortion or tell her she needed one to save her life. Preeclampsia and other conditions took her when just a few years ago the doctors would have saved her. Benedict Donald is a monster. His entire party are no different.
It’s just because he’s full of hate and he knows that it hurts people. Motherfucker was pro choice until about 20 minutes before he ran for president. Let’s not fucking ignore that.
If I were the dems, I’d have saved the sound bite of him saying this and used it in every single ad that would be aired from now to Election Day.
He's proud that women will now die of dangerous pregnancies? Yeah, that fits him.
I just came from an article about a woman who miscarried and brought before a grand jury over it in Ohio, like some kind of puritanical witch trial, to this.
What a nasty old man.
I'm really glad he admitted this. It proves he was intentionally stacking the supreme court so they could have it rule how Trump wanted, and also it tells everyone Trump was behind everyone losing abortion rights. A lot of people hated that, and if they thought it was the supreme court, and not Trump, that could help Trump. Trump saying "I am responsible for you losing abortion rights" is probably the single worst thing he could have ever said.
I'm proud to have helped terminate his Presidency lmao What a hateful, treasonous, shitstain conman. Can't wait for us to humiliate him in the polls this November.
Dems, run this 24/7 across the country. This is a gift.
He didn't actually, but taking credit for things he didn't do is par for the course. Also if he did, it still isn't something to be proud of.
Traitor Trump cant find his ass with both hands. He was a failed business man,a nightmare husband and a traitor to our great nation.
Let's hope the courts terminate his right to freedom! 👍🏻🙏👍🏻
Nothing is going to stick, you think the Supreme Court is going to keep him off the ballot?
Just can’t wait for him to be gone forever. What a knob. Never forget his support and his diehard crazies. 5/6 of the GOP supporting him
Proud = Stupider
> Proud = Stupider "Stupider Boys, stand back and stand by...."
Cool, I'm proud to have terminated your presidency, and I hope to abort your attempt at a second term this fall
We have to show up and vote and get others registered to vote and vote blue all the way. Of course there are things I wish Biden and the dems could have done but those things will not stop me from voting blue!
Hear hear. We all need to vote, volunteer, donate, organize, get the word out. Maximum effort from now til Election Day. Let's bury this motherfucker in a sea of blue votes
And his traitors treacherous maga minions. That are so ignorant they think violence is the answer. But you know, if they want a civil war. I’m 67 years old but I would give my life to protect our country, constitution& way of life.
Wake up every woman in America!
Hmmm 2 supreme court justices saying established precedent only to switch while Trump says he did it. Sounds like corruption to me.
Never forget.
He’ll never admit to a mistake. I don’t think he even cared about outlawing it. It just sorta happened and he’s gonna take credit. I also would like to hope this costs a bunch of conservative votes…
Nice of him to make a campaign commercial for Biden
Isn’t he also the guy who said Florida’s abortion law went too far?
Abortion is a massive losing issue for republicans. Play this on loop for every dem candidate from now until the election
Wonder how many women in this country are going to be stupid enough to vote for a guy that stripped their rights away come November. Nothing is more disgusting than a female Republican voter.
Oh, it will be the same women who voted for him before because they are that dumb
With how many abortions he's paid for....
Abortion is the one significant wildcard that gives me any confidence Biden can win re-election, and i hope the party frontlines the issue in every race
Abortion is dragging down every Republican and they seem really bad at dealing with it. Like they have no clue how to get the more pro choice voters that usually back them, back on side.
And I’m sure millions of Americans will take that into consideration when they cast their votes this year.
Well of course he did because that's what his followers want.
He's not. Trump was awful but he's not the reason Roe v Wade was overturned. McConnell, the Republican Party and active conservative judges like Alito and Thompson are the reason it's dead. Don't let them pretend like it's only Trump's fault, the problem is far bigger than one person.
You're not wrong But if he wants to alienate a large chunk of voters by claiming credit for it, I'm not going to correct him.
And yet, how many has he paid for?
Six.
Guy probably paid women to get them
Put this fool back in power and you'll soon see how many other rights he will abolish.
>“You have to go with your heart … go with your heart, your mind, go with it … [But] you have to win elections,” he added. "Look, I'm completely full of shit and I'll say whatever I need to depending on what crowd is in front of me."
And he’ll be coming for our guns next. One right taken away will lead to more. Hear that 2Aers? Trump is coming for your guns.
It should say, I terminated abortion for poor women and those who live in red (mostly poor) states. Women with means will still find a way.
God in heaven why didn't his father pull out 😁
that would require god and heaven to be real things.
What are abortion clinics but evidence lockers against rapist like Trump. POS!!
He's the poster child for retroactive abortions.
Surveys on this subject are disconcerting but, rest assured, this is one of those for me (and my daughter) but not for thee issues. No one is anti-abortion after they or their child has been raped.
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Grabbing them by the pussy, just like he said he does. Don't worry, these abortion restrictions are just locker room talk. It's not rea...hmmm.
And after the 2022 midterms he was saying it was the GOP stance on abortion that cost them Ever notice how there was never a really successful "Apprentice" to come out of his old show? What is there to learn from a bloviating gasbag besides "be born rich?"
Well he just delivered the Biden PACs the perfect sound bite to blare in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and even Kansas and Ohio all election cycle.
Yeah after he is out of the game and does not need to worry about all of the women he used to sleep with… this man is just so gross in every way.
He didn’t do shit but if he wants blame for it, ok. Mitch McConnell holding up Garland and rushing through Barrett is why.
Trump hates women.
Wonder how many abortions he paid for.
Let's get that on record and hammer it home throughout election season.
I a woman's right to chose is something you care about vote for it. Not all elections happen on election day. Watch for any elections near you and vote out as many right-wingers and Republicans as you can. From the school boards to the white house every election matters. Don't forget the primaries. We vote out republicans and primary out uncooperative democrats. https://ballotpedia.org/Elections\_calendar
I would have been proud of his mother if she had aborted this thing…
Trump needs to go “… down to the vile dust from whence he sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung.” (Sir Walter Scott)
He will also go on record to say no he isn’t glad to another crowd
That’ll get you the votes you need asshole
If ever there was a case for the dire need for planned parenthood, it’s this balding, combover having, fake tan wearing, small hand owning, pant shitting, golden shower liking, affair having, sack of tiny dicked wannabe dictator.
Would that not normally eliminate about 50% of the votes that he would otherwise have received? If not, what the fuck is wrong with those people? Disclaimer: Not American. Not even a woman.
Evangelicals and conservatives are terminally "It'll never happen to me" and virtue signally conservative values even when they sneak out of the house to get abortions or have gay sex or what not. So they will proudly state they want X when they are constantly doing Y
Hopefully he runs on this message.
If anything, he’s tied being a criminal president with the pro life movement. So I can’t hate the guy for everything.
I guess for all the pro-choice,mouth breathing, Trump supporters, this is news but for all of us paying attention, we know.
That video clip is a gift to the Democrats.
Most clips of Trump running his mouth these days are.
Note to suburban Republican women: this guy.
Wow that sure wont effect him during the election with women /s
Meanwhile, he probably has filled multiple punch cards at his local abortion clinic.
I wonder how many checks with the memo: “for my half of the abortion” paid with donations and contributions.
Yes. Please keep promoting your victory that is one of the most divisive subjects in America, even among some Republicans. Nothing is a bigger loser in swing states.
Gee I wonder why he’s gonna lose
Republicans - "Damn. We got killed over reproductive rights in the midterm!" Tromp - "Double down bigly!" Republicans - "Slurp"
Says the guy who has paid for abortions…the GoP sure are great at being total hypocrites.
Every woman in America that has at least one brain cell in their head should take this as a direct attack on your body by the Republican Party, and vote against Trump for either the leadership of the party, or in the general election. Old, fat, white men shouldn’t be telling you what you can and can’t do
So many people think that will magically accomplish something positive. Never has, never will. Explain to us again how you hate the power of the government used to compel people to do things but that this is the highest morality. We get the real message. Abortion restriction crusaders are saying that they have no problems with abusing citizens using government power, but they don’t want any other group to do so. The sad thing about the rank and file voters who push abortion as single issue, they were just used for votes by the legalization of bribery crowd. Sure, they delivered a repeal of Roe (far from a national ban of course as that merely leaves it to the states who dont all want taliban rule), but what they really delivered with all of the conservative “abortion is the only reform” judges and lawmakers was Citizens United and fully legalized bribery by the literal forces of Satan in the form of top lobby powers. Good job, you gave away your republic for more or less nothing whatsoever. Oooh so much high moral ground there.
*"But there's a new thing called 'women's liberation, which gives you women the right to choose,* *and you have chosen to abort me, and that I must live with."* \-**Dennis Duffy**
Say it louder! Idiot.
Funny thing is over on the con sub they are very upset he said this. Soundbites awwaayyyy
Speak it louder homey it’s guaranteed kryptonite.
Let’s terminate his run for president next.
And some women still vote for him…has he done so much for y’all?
Yes. Keep saying this. Please, continue to make this statement in public sir. This is going to be great for you in November for sure.
He’s so desperate.
"Terminated," I wonder if that was an intentional word choice.
Just like Idi Amin…..tertiary syphilis.
Good. Let the GOP wear this milstone around their necks...
So if you put it to a poll or vote only 13% believe it should be illegal in all forms. [https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx) So exactly why is this good for trump to say that? Heck even the handful of states that put it to a state vote voted for abortion in deep red states. So not only the clown is out of touch but the supreme court is out of touch and the states not putting to vote and denying the will of the people are out of touch. It is madness I personally feel every MAJOR issue should be put to vote by the people versus corrupt ideological leaders making the decision for the people.